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MHA Provides New Resources on Student Mental Health
Mental Health America Provides New Resources on Student Mental Health
Back to Campus, Back to School Material Offers Guidance for Students, Parents, Administrators
Contact: Steve Vetzner, (703) 797-2588 or email@example.com
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 27, 2013)—In recognition of the challenges a new school year presents , Mental Health America is providing new resources on student mental health.
"A student's mental health is just as important as their general health," said Wayne W. Lindstrom, Ph.D., president and CEO of Mental Health America. "We know the start of a new school year can be a stressful time for students all ages. These resources are designed to help everyone—students, parents and administrators—promote good mental health and ensure resources are available."
A Back to Campus toolkit (http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/back-campus) includes fact sheets for students and information for colleges and universities about what types of services should be in place to address the mental health needs of the student body:
- Checklist for Institutions of Higher Learning—reviews various programs and services that colleges and universities can implement.
- Stressed or Depressed? Know the Difference—looks at the common signs of stress and depression and how they differ.
- Boost Your School Performance by Taking Care of You—provides simple everyday steps for students on taking care of one's mind as well as body.
- Top Ten Freshman Year Issues (and how to deal with them)—addresses challenges and solutions of the first year in college.
- A Fact Sheet on Alcohol & Substance Use, and Depression
- A Back to School List of Tips (http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/back-school) provides important steps parents can take to support their child as he or she heads back to school.
Mental Health America (www.mentalhealthamerica.net), founded in 1909, is the nation's leading community-based network dedicated to helping all Americans achieve wellness by living mentally healthier lives. With our 240 affiliates across the country, we touch the lives of millions - Advocacy for changes in mental health and wellness policy; Educating the public & providing critical information; and Delivering urgently needed mental health and wellness Programs and Services.


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Waterloo Bar & Grill
The Waterloo Bar & Grill is attached to the north end of the clubhouse and acts as a golfer's turn house. It has been named "Waterloo" after the course's world famous 640 yard, par-5, 13th hole and has been added to the Dunes clubhouse as a guest amenity. Waterloo's lavish dining area and bar showcases the dark mahogany woodwork, antique furnishings and golf memorabilia.
More than 40 people can be seated comfortably for a quick lunch at the turn or after golf cocktails. An outdoor terrace with seating for 30 people overlooks the swash and offers a relaxing finish to an exhilarating day on the golf course. The incredible views of both the ocean and the golf course, as well as an attentive staff and casual atmosphere, create an intimate and memorable experience for both Members and guests.
The casual Waterloo menu offers an array of classic club favorites to tempt your palette. Dine on lighter fare like one of the grill's popular salads or sandwich selections or enjoy a heartier meal with one of the specialty selections like the Fajita Chicken Quesadilla, Grilled or Blackened Mahi Sandwich, or Turkey Tacos.

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CROCUS - Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust LP
Holy Roar Records / Unlock Yourself Records
400 Pressed
Crocus have been kicking around the UK and Europe for some time now. But that is in no way presented to you as a negative fact. The best things come to those whose wait, those who build and nurture music, to achieve the best possible result. Don't believe me? Only interested in whatever hyped-sloppy-bullshit-that-hasn't-even-played-live-yet is cool this week? Well fuck off then. Look at Throats and Rolo Tomassi – contemporaries of Crocus who built their reputation over a multitude of low-key releases over years of practice and refinement….
Crocus' history lies in a classic screamo lineage that encompasses everyone from the intensity of p.99 to the epic melodicism of Daitro to the crazed, brutal schizo insanity of The Assistant. However, over time, this is a band that has grown ever more heavy, without ever losing their 'turn-on-a-dime' time-changes or melodic nature. We are talking classic rock riffage funneled through octave pedals and metallic distortion. Peaks, troughs and breaktaking undulations.
A true power-quartet, no one element of this band stands out more than another. Frantic (bordering on) virtuoso guitar and bass playing jostle with manic edge-of-sanity but ever-solid drumming, iced with a vicious, angry emotional onslaught of a vocal.
With 'Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust' Crocus have presented a concise, epic album that will leave you reeling. It WILL take a few listens to get your head around. But don't all the best albums?
- If Love is Madness, Then I'm Madly in Love With You
- This is Pain
- All of You
- You Don't Belong
- Our Memories Dress Me In a Dead Lust
- Left to Bruise
- Not Alone
- Revival


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Arianismâr´ēənĭz˝əm [key], Christian heresy founded by Arius in the 4th cent. It was one of the most widespread and divisive heresies in the history of Christianity. As a priest in Alexandria, Arius taught (c.318) that God created, before all things, a Son who was the first creature, but who was neither equal to nor coeternal with the Father. According to Arius, Jesus was a supernatural creature not quite human and not quite divine. In these ideas Arius followed the school of Lucian of Antioch.
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Last week was a big news week for Chicago. Former Governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty on 17 out of 20 charges of corruption, including attempting to sell the Senate seat formerly held by Barack Obama. It's certainly not the first time a politician has gone down over corruption charges, and not even the first time in Illinois. The previous governor, George Ryan is currently serving time for federal corruption charges and it looks as though he's likely to live the reminder of his life behind bars. Ironically, Blagojevich was elected as the reform candidate after Ryan's disgrace.
The other politician who recently made headlines, Rep. Anthony Weiner, was forced to resign by fellow congressional reps and the general public, not for misusing his political office, but for doing something an elected official should never do—exposing himself on Twitter. You'd think he'd have learned a lesson from fellow New York representative Chris Lee, who also resigned in February after posting a shirtless photo of himself in a Craigslist dating ad. Lee is married, as is Weiner.
Both Blago and Weiner and countless other politicians were entrusted as leaders by the general public. And when they failed us, they were held accountable. Both showed resistance to resigning, but thanks to public pressure, they ultimately did step down. And these are secular leaders, not held to the moral standards the church holds its leadership.
So why aren't the bishops who have failed the church and who have certainly been the recipients of much pressure from their flock also resigned? While these bishops aren't the direct perpetrators of the sex abuse, they are culpable in perpetuating the crimes. These bishops have—and continue to—shuffle priests around, ignoring the guidelines stated in the Dallas charter, and sidestep their lay review boards.
Perhaps if bishops were elected, they'd feel a bit more accountable. Cue that too familiar mantra: "The church is not a democracy." It's certainly not, but it should be taking a little more inspiration from it.
The biggest question in the sex abuse crisis is why some bishops still have their jobs.


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(if you are reading this in google reader, go to Chic Runner, for some reason the pictures aren't showing up in reader, and I'm working on it :) also, sorry for the long load time because of all the pictures!)
The weekend started off with working the LA Marathon expo for about 9 hours on Friday, where I also got my bib and t-shirt.
The back of the LA Marathon t-shirt. I also was able to find my name on the car that was the pace car! Though it was a lovely day at the expo, it was also a long day! I got to see some fun people though, which makes the day go by much faster.
I picked up Tara on Friday night and we went basically straight to bed. We were both super tired and slept in on Saturday morning before heading out to the Nike Outlet and finding some gems. We ate at a pizza place in Santa Monica as well for lunch and finally met up with Maritza. We headed off to the hotel and checked in after of course hitting up 7-11 for some tasty snacks. We all already had gotten our bibs and were all set for race day the next morning. We went to this awesome Mexican restaurant for dinner, where I got a delicious mac and cheese and carne asada fries, which were both to die for.
Sadly, I only ate about half of both before I was SO full! Delish none the less. We traveled back to the hotel and got ready for bed and our early morning wake up call of 3:00 am. We have heard so many times, arrive early! arrive early! So we knew to set our alarms and not chance anything. I woke up at about 2:50 and thought Tara was snoring. I realized that it wasn't her and thought it was our neighbor in the hotel. I kept listening to figure it out. Oh wait, it's the wind howling outside our hotel. We woke up to monsoon like conditions. Since we stayed in Marina del Rey, there were tons of palm fronds everywhere and it looks horrible outside. Wet, windy and cold. Three of my most hated weather terms. Tara said, "It's all about survival today, that's it," and in a few short hours I would find out how that statement was so true.
We headed over to Maritza's boyfriends house, who would be dropping us off at Dodger Stadium that morning. THANK YOU MARIO! We arrived with no problems at around 4:00 am….and then realized we had to wait FOREVER for the race to start at 7:25. We huddled together and tried to fend off the wind before the race started, we were freezing on the first floor of the stadium. Once we moved up to the 2nd floor of the stadium, we found a little cubbie area and stayed there until about 7:15. We shed our throwaway t-shirts and donned our trash bags and headed down to the start area.
It was nice to have bathrooms that weren't portapotties, even if there were long lines. As soon as we got to the start, we were in the general vicinity of the corral for 11:00 pace. The race was suppose to start at 7:25, but it didn't start until around 7:50 and we were about 11 minutes back from the clock.
Right when we started, there were FAT raindrops falling. Now, I know that a rainy marathon was something I told myself I would never do. If Tara and Maritza weren't there, I most likely would have not done it, but thankfully, they got me to the start line and didn't let me wimp out. I kept telling myself it was just water and it would be okay. I was really worried mostly about my feet being mangled from being wet but I figured I had no choice but to just keep going.
Miles 1-5 were fine, I remembered the course well and just traveled on my merry way with my little tiger visor and T by my side, we were cruising at a good pace, traveling at about a 4:30 finish. We both really wanted to push each other to get to the half way point and from then we would decide how to run the rest of the race. We knew we wouldn't have any trouble getting half way. Around mile 5 it started to rain just a tad harder and there are quite a few hills in miles 4-5. Mostly long steady climbs. We got to mile 6 and ate a little bit, and were working hard at pulling each other along. There were a few missing mile markers, but I risked Claude's death and wore him. Thankfully, he survived the bath of the year and I could tell what miles we were at for the race. Most of the race, all I could hear was the swishing of the bags of all the runners around us. Swish, Swish, squish, squish. My hands and feet were so cold the entire race. We were soaking wet by mile 5. From miles 5-10 it was pretty uneventful. A few long inclines and we just pushed each other along. There were SO many walkers out. I think LA is one of the races where a huge number of people are walkers.
We got to mile 10 and I knew it was only a little bit more until the half way point. So we chugged along. I felt much better this race than last year and knew that the half way mark was right around the corner. Tara and I kept pushing each other and just thinking about being half way done. Every time I heard Claude beeping because a mile was passed I knew it was one mile marker closer to our goal, the finish! We got to mile 14 and we ate again. At mile 18 we decided to head under an awning for a second because I wanted to take a salt tab. I knew that the salt pills would be ruined in the rain and I wanted to keep them safe just in case I needed to take one more later on during the race. Once we were under an awning it literally started POURING. There were about 10 times during the race when I thought it might actually be hailing because the rain hurt it was coming down so hard. I don't know if I have ever seen this rain like this in a long, long time. It was crazy. We just looked out at the rain and looked at each other and kind of laughed. What we were doing! We started off again and knew that we with every step we were getting closer and closer to the finish.
From mile 18-21 it was just a downpour. Obviously there were quite a few gun to the head moments out there. We tried to keep going, but the course was flooding and rerouted into the grass and only in the center of the road at many places because the gutters were overflowing. I have never seen such a thing. Here is another picture taken by a friend just to show you the gutters.I'm not actually in the picture, but it just shows what a glum day it was.
We just started walking. We could see our breath in the air when we were running and it was so cold. Our clothes were sopping wet and every step was just splashing. I almost think running made your feet lighter because when you walked they got so weighed down with water. I swear I watched rain wring out of my gloves every time I swung my hands back and forth. From mile 21 to 23, we were both feeling pretty defeated. I think the rain, wind, everything just was wearing on us. It's a long time to be doing anything, none the less running in a monsoon.
Up the hill at mile 20, with the water pouring down the sidewalks. This was right before the course got rerouted up into the grass/mud because of the flooding area. I seriously wish I got pictures, but sadly, my iPhone stayed safe in it's bag in my pouch on my belt. I was not risking it's life for pictures. From mile 20 to about mile 24, we just walked. We were so out of it, cold, shivering, and tired.
Check out that awesome power walking. T and I were walking some parts and she taught me how to go for it with power walking. I was so slow at the beginning, but by the end I was shaking it and power walking along! I still wasn't terribly sore or anything, just cold and super wet. Finally around mile 24, we were walking and running off and on. Tara was having some foot pain and I told her I wouldn't leave her, no matter what. I really wanted us to finish together. She came down to trudge through it with me and I wouldn't let her out of my sight! During the entire race we really wanted to go to the bathroom, but we knew if we stopped we wouldn't be able to get our clothes back on our bodies! They were that drenched. There were also pretty long lines for the bathrooms throughout the entire race, so we opted to just try to keep going. Toward the end my capris were so heavy with water they were starting to feel like I was wearing a diaper. Awesome. I saw so many little Students Run LA just shaking like leaves along the course. It was so sad.
We traveled forward and hit mile 25. As soon as we turned the corner onto Ocean from San Vicente, I was still feeling pretty alright body wise, but I was FREEZING and the wind on the corner hit us like a ton of bricks. It was a crazy. I have never seen anything like it. Branches everywhere, rain pouring down. I couldn't believe it. We were running in about half an inch of water and couldn't even see the finish line up ahead because it was raining so hard. I looked down and saw dirt and debris on my shirt from the wind blowing up on us.
That was right before the finish. I remember splashing down and just watching my feet to make sure I didn't slip in the huge puddles that were accumulating every where. I know that there are such things as a great run in the rain. I've had a few when I put on my big girl face and brave it, but this was sadly a sopping wet mess. A huge thanks for all the people who DID come out. It was kind of a bummer, because even though I had such a poor race last year, because of my own fueling issues, one thing that was awesome was all the crowd support. This year there were tons of volunteers who braved the elements. I think I only saw one abandoned water station but the crowd support was so minimal compared to last year, as expected with the crazy weather. I think that's what made the race so fun for me last year. Oh well, lets hope for no rain next year!
Anyways, once at the finish, and having a big fat 5 in front of my finish time. (5:28) My times are so all over the board for all my marathons I've done thus far. SD 2009 – 4:28, LB 2009 – 3:55, Malibu 2009 – 4:14, CIM 2009 – 4:22, LA 2010 – 4:41, Camarillo 2010 – 4:25, LA 2011 – 5:28. GAH! I was shivering and my teeth were chattering. I grabbed the space blanket, and we both had to hunt down the medals. We found a portapottie and quick hit them up. They were over in this muddy area, so there wasn't much of a line. Once we got both got done with the medals and space blankets, we traveled over to where all the bike fencing was just scattered around and got out of the finish chute about 50 meters into the chute and started walking to where I parked my car the day before. It was just pouring the entire way. We both just were shaking and knowing that we HAD to get to the car. FINALLY we made it the mile back and were so happy to just get in and try to warm up!
All in all, I'm glad I didn't quit. I thought about it numerous times. I have never thought about it as much as I did this Sunday. I think I am pretty defeated by my time. I never thought I would run that, but on the upside, I'm not really sore at all. So that's a good thing. As for Oakland next weekend, if it's raining, I'm going to do the half. I will not purposely subject myself to that ever again. I have never felt so cold and sick. I still feel cold. If it's not raining, I will have no problem doing the full. I also am going up to hang out with T, so it will be a game time decision for us. I'm so thankful for all the volunteers who lined the streets of LA to clean up the water stations and hand out oranges and water to everyone. It takes so much to put on a race and I thought about the organizers throughout the day. I can't even imagine the heartbreak I would be feeling in their shoes. They have no pictures to market the event from this year really, and so many peoples experiences are marred by the rain, which they had nothing to do with. I couldn't imagine putting so much into something and then having it turn out like that.
Though I didn't have a great time on the clock, I did learn quite a lot about myself during the race. I'm a lot tougher than I thought I was, and I'm glad that I didn't give up. I never, ever imagined that I would ever do something like that in my life, and I didn't quit.
Here's a video from Glenn, who pretty much captures the day. :)
And here's another person's blog post with lots of pictures!
After the race, I'm really glad we stuck it out and finished it. I seriously had my doubts during the race. Even though the only goal I hit was my D goal, I'm still proud that I finished and that I had a great weekend with some of my best friends, which was what I planned on doing.


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In a quiet cul-de-sac on a hill, Boonah Hilltop Cottage is a fully-renovated 1930s home. The spacious front deck offers excellent views of Boonah, with an outlook to Mt. French and Cunningham's Gap from the rear garden. It sleeps up to eight guests and is suitable for couples, families and groups.
There is a queen-sized bedroom with ensuite and a second bedroom with a queen bed. The cottage also has two king single beds and two single beds . A bathroom with a double spa bath, toilet and laundry facilities is provided. A fully equipped kitchen is available and an initial breakfast hamper is provided for all guests.
The main living area includes television, DVDs, and a cosy fireplace. There is an open-plan sitting and dining room with air conditioning provided to most areas.
The cottage has a small library, board games and toys. It is wheelchair accessible with off-street undercover parking. A back arbour contains a large barbecue. This spacious cottage is a short walk from Boonah town centre .
One hour's drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Boonah Hilltop Cottage is a perfect spot to get away from it all and yet have it all nearby.
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Stop, listen and research! In this episode of Investor Insight, CREW TV identifies the essential research any investor needs to conduct before moving into a new market, whether that's Western Canada or, what's increasingly the case, the U.S.A.
CREW's Jemima Codrington talks to Leslie Quinsay of Coridian Capital and Marcel Greaux, co-founder of the Toronto Real Estate Club.
Video transcript below:
Jemima Codrington: Decisions, Decisions! But, first and increasingly so does Planning, Planning! Hi, I'm Jemima Codrington and welcome to this week's instalment of Investor Insight on Crew TV.
Property investors tend to be go getters by the [slice of time] and challenges creep in, they need to stop and assess. To keep on to this is laying the groundwork to enter new markets.
Leslie Quinsay, Director, Coridian Capital
Leslie Quinsay: Investing at a distance comes with many challenges and it's something I have experienced firsthand. You are not physically present and you may not be familiar with the areas that you are investing in. So, my recommendation is actually before investing your money there, take the time to travel out there and build a support team that will ensure that your properties are well managed, that there are people there that can keep you upto date on what's changing in the neighbourhood or a region and that can also take care of your tenants. So, you need to make sure that overall, even though you are not physically present, your properties are being managed well and your tenants are happy and you are running it as a strong business.
Jemima Codrington: But before you went to another province or even another city, investors still have some homework to do. Warning it involves a computer and likely hours of research.
Marcel Greaux, Co-Founder, Toronto Real Estate Club
Marcel Greaux: So, in this market, particularly the condo market, it is absolutely essential you look at few key factors. One, I would say is run a Proforma. I am surprised at how many investors do not do this before they purchase. So what are your rents, what are your expenses and even stress test your portfolio, right. You know, run your mortgage with a 25 year amortisation and a 4 or 5% interest rate and see if your cash flow [before a new close].
The other thing is, matrix. There are 3 things I look at. What is your price compared to the resale market that you are buying in? What is your price compared to the occupancy within the area and what is your price compared to other new builds that are coming on the market. If you can fall under all 3 of those matrix, then it is likely that you got a good price in addition to getting access directly from the developer.
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Devin P. McComb has joined the firm's Seattle office as a partner in the Real Estate & Land Use practice
Grimsby skyline to be reshaped by tallest buildings in city: two-tower residential complex
Connect Asset Management Challenges the Financial Community to Invest in Downtown Toronto Real Estate for a Good Cause


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15 Easy DIY Headboards
Find ideas for creating inexpensive custom headboards for your bedroom or your kid's bedroom.
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Sweet Dreams
Old picture frames and salvaged lumber were turned into a personalized headboard for a little girl's bedroom. "Sweet dreams" was spelled out and each letter was embellished with flowers. Create your own personalized message or spell out your child's name.
Fireplace Mantel Headboard
This vintage-chic headboard was made from an old fireplace mantel with a tufted upholstered insert.
Picket Fence
This rustic-chic headboard was made from an old picket fence. The pickets were cut up into small pieces, cleaned and then refinished in a few different stains. Then the pieces were fitted into a frame made from more weathered lumber.
It's Not Metal
This industrial-style headboard is made out of PVC pipes that were painted silver. Twine was strung between the pipes, then clothespins were added to display vintage postcards. The next photo shows another version of this same headboard.
Sail Off to Sleep
PVC pipes painted silver make this bed frame look like metal. A piece of a boat sail is stretched across the frame thanks to the addition of grommets and rope.
Say It Was His Bed
The slatted headboard on this platform bed leans back just enough to make it very easy to sit up and read or watch TV in bed.
Cottage Style
We modeled this headboard from one we saw in a popular home-decor catalog. It is very simple to build standard-size lumber is fastened to a large piece of plywood, then the whole piece is painted white.
Statuesque and Upholstered
Create a dramatic focal point by bringing your headboard up to the ceiling.
Photo Frame Headboard
Salvaged planks are lined up to make a headboard with a family photo mounted in the center. The photo can easily be swapped out to match decor changes.
Rustic Style
This wooden headboard was made using basic tongue-and-groove construction. We distressed it, then gave it a weathered barn-wood finish, but it could be painted or stained any color.
Enchanted Forest
To make this pretty girls' bed, an old thrift store headboard was painted white. Then branches were also painted white and attached to the headboard. The branches were then adorned with pretty birds, ribbons and glitter.
Twinkle, Twinkle
Holiday lights are used to create a built-in night-light in a little boy's bedroom. Glow-in-the-dark stars accompany the moonlight for some extra sparkle.
T-Shirt Collection
Kids often have a hard time parting with their favorite T-shirts even after they've outgrown them. Use old T-shirts, sport jerseys or old blankets to create a collage of color over your child's bed.
Homemade Slipcover
An old wood headboard is draped with an inexpensive canvas drop cloth. The drop cloth is held on by ribbons tied at each side. To give the slipcover a shabby-chic look, we placed a piece of old handcrafted crewelwork in the center of the drop cloth.
Duct Tape Headboard
Colorful duct tape is wrapped around a big piece of cardboard to make this racy kids' headboard. This is an inexpensive and easy project to make with your kids. No power tools are required, and kids can use their creativity to the fullest.


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Fred is my computer....he is needing to go to the hospital to have a nasty virus treated. Sigh. So he'll see Dr. David (my BIL) while we are gone.
Kevin and I are leaving on a mission trip on Saturday. I am so excited!! Please pray for us!!
In Christ
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Fred is dead
Fred is my computer....he is needing to go to the hospital to have a nasty virus treated. Sigh. So he'll see Dr. David (my BIL) while we are gone.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
My Bloggy Winners!!!
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Thankful Thursday
I have so much to be thankful for.
My oldest daughter. Grace is such an amazing young girl with an incredible love for people.
Olivia is truly a princess. She is insistent about it. But she truly is one, to me.
Josiah, my little man. He is such a funny little guy. His favorite thing right now is to tell us everyone he loves. It's quite a list.
My Charis is such a funny little thing. Half of the time, she is pretending she is a puppy. But as soon as I sit down, she is my little cuddle bug, climbing up on my lap.
And my baby, Elliana. She is such a joy. She is growing up way too fast trying to keep up with the rest of the Jobe crew.
And lastly, my wonderful husband. You'll have to go back a few posts for just one example of how great he is!!
May you feel blessed today and be thankful for it!!
The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever!!!
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
A night on the streets
Last night, our church participated in the annual Norwood Day Parade. You would think that I would have had enough with parades during my days of working with color guard! But last night's experience was truly different.
Next week, we are having 24 hour prayer vigil at the church. We passed out prestamped prayer request cards to the thousands of people that were there. We passed out almost 1000 of them. I was a little nervous at first. You know, the whole going up to people to talk about God thing. But it was amazing. I just told people that we were having a prayer vigil and if they would fill out the card and pop it in the mail we would pray for them. People loved the idea. They asked for extra cards. The people around them who heard us wanted cards. I got to see a lot of familiar faces, old neighbors, former students, former band and guard students, etc. It was just an amazing and humbling experience. God is so good.
So my prayer is that people will use these cards. That the church office will just be flooded. I pray that we will reach our community for the Lord.
If you have a prayer request, comment to this post and I will copy it and add it to prayer wall in our prayer room.
May you feel the tangible presence of God in your life today!!
Because He Lives,
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Dog Days of Summer Giveaway!!
As a part of the Dog Days of Summer Giveaway...I am giving away 3 free custom made hair bows to one lucky winner! Leave a comment one day this week and on Friday I'll randomly choose a winner!! You can choose your own styles and colors if you are the winner!! For some other ideas check out http://s125.photobucket.com/albums/p79/tonnijobe/
I will pay shipping! (Canada and US only, please)
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
A rough few days
As you may or may not know, I have clinical depression. I hate it. Counseling and medications have helped, but I still have some days that are rougher than others. Yesterday and today are those days. All I want to do is sleep. To be alone....like that every happens in household shared by 7 people. How can I be surrounded by people and still feel so lonely? Such a strange dichotomy. My energy is completely zapped.
Yet I know that it is temporary. In a day or two I'll feel just like myself again. Ready to face the world, be the helper my husband needs me to be. Be the mom the kids need me to be. These are the days when I rely on one of my favorite verses from Nehemiah. "For the joy of the Lord is your strength." Even when I am not strong, I can get strength from my Jesus. There is joy in my salvation, even on the days when I don't feel much happiness. Even on those days, I AM SAVED! There is strength in that.
So for today, I will meditate on that. And tomorrow, I pray I'll feel like myself.
Because HE Lives
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Thankful Thursday
I am so thankful today for the prayers of my friends. In two weeks and two days I am going on my first mission trip with 20 others. I am a combination of excited and anxious. I know the trip will be wonderful, but I am having pangs about leaving my 5 monkeys at home. I am so grateful for my friends who will be providing care for my kids and for those covering me with prayer. The Fellowship of the Forgiven is AMAZING!!
I am a part of the fellowship of the FORGIVEN.
I have Holy Spirit Power.
The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line.
The decision has been made.
I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.
I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
My past is redeemed, my present makes sense,
and my future is secure.
I am finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planing, smoothe knees, colorless dreams, tame visions, mundane talking, chintzy giving and dwarfed goals.
My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven,
my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few,
my Guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I cannot be bought, compromised, deterred, lured away,
turned back, diluted, or delayed.
I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the eneny, ponder at the pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, back up, let up or shut up until I've preached up, prayed up, paid up, stored up and stayed up for the cause of Christ.
Im a disciple of Jesus Christ. I must go intil He returns, give until I drop, preach until all know and work until He comes.
And when He comes to get His own,
He will have no problem recognizing me.
My colors will be clear!
"I am not ashamed of the Gospel,
because it is the power of God for the salvation of
everyone who believes"
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Wordless Wednesday
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Sunday, July 15, 2007
Kansas City Fun!
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The Weird Dog
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Getting pretty
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Fashion Show
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Kansas City Fun!!
Yesterday, Gracie, Livi and I drove all day to visit my sister in Kansas City! My neices are the same ages as Livi and Grace. We are having a great time having fashion show, playing with floam, all sorts of great things. The rest of our week includes a trip to Libby Lu and the Disney store, VBS, swimming and general girl stuff. Maybe even some Cosmic Golfing!!
Pictures will be coming!!
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
Don't we work really hard to make everything complicated? I just did an internet search on prayer. Want to guess how many results came up? Hundreds? Thousands? Try 73,600,000! Yep, you read that right 73 MILLION 600 THOUSAND!!!!
Now, none of would say that prayer is optional. Jesus took time to pray. He went off by himself and prayed. He took the time to teach his twelve disciples to pray. In Mathew 6:5, Jesus says, "When you pray....." not IF you pray, but "WHEN." Okay, not a ground breaking revelation. But, still true. We are called to pray, to be in fellowship with our Father. I Corinthians 7:5 tells us to devote ourselves to prayer.
Prayer is defined as communication with God. When I communicate with a friend, I talk and listen. Sometimes I fear my prayer may be to God like my trip today to the grocery store with my son. Josiah talked NONSTOP. He must have said "mommy" 187 times! It started every single sentence. He asked question after question. He nagged for item after item.....hmmmm. Do I do that to God? Are my prayers just lists some days? God, I want 1,2,3,x,y,z....and so forth?
I know that just products with Spiderman on them are not the best choice for Josiah. He needs fruits and vegetables, protein, carbohydrates. Some of everything. So, I have to say, "no." And he whines and asks why. Is that how I sound to God? Do I ask and ask and then whine when I don't get my way? I am embarrassed to admit that I do this more often than I would like to acknowledge. But, when He tells me, his child, no, might it not be for my own good? Or maybe He wants me to slow down and listen instead of just make request after request.
I do know this. God wants relationship with me. And I have to be willing to communicate with Him in order for this relationship to grow.
8When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Rev. 5:8....our prayers our incense unto the Lord
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Oh, my aching feet
Well, I did it! I met Andi at Sharon Woods tonight and we walked!! Yipee for us!! We walked regularly when we lost so much weight 5 years ago. Hopefully this is the beginning of getting moving and getting healthy again!!
My feet are hurting. 20 years ago I had a doctor say that my feet are 20 years older than I am.....you do the math (and keep the answer to yourself! It is depressing!!!)
I have been on Weight Watchers for a couple of months now and have lost approximately 10 pounds. That is 40 (yes 40) sticks of butter!! Keep an eye on the bottom of my blog to keep track of how close I am to my goal. I'll try to post some pictures so you can see my progress, but remember that I am an expert at being the one behind the camera!
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Monday, July 2, 2007
We have all sorts of issues with the girls at bedtime...all 4 of them. I DO NOT recommend having 4 girls in one room.......I cannot wait until they are teenagers. Riiiiiiiiiight! LOL! Anyway, this kind of encapsules our evenings.
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When 3Ghz dual core computers running 2GB of RAM weren't being used for many heavily CPU-intensive applications in a Victorian secondary school library, the school's IT department initially joked about replacing them with older and previously abandoned hardware. Then it saw the serious side.
When the KDE-centric Ubuntu derivation, Kubuntu, was installed on the old gear -- a mixture of Acer Veriton 3600s and 2.1Ghz V5100s -- the school found it performed just as efficiently as on the newer hardware. So the IT department installed six Kubuntu desktops in kiosk mode on the old gear for its Web-based student library system, and sent the newer hardware back into classrooms where they could be used by students to their full potential.
Implementing a kiosk mode Kubuntu setup allowed Westall Secondary School, located in eastern Melbourne, to save money, exact greater control over security measures, and extend the life of older and discarded hardware without sacrificing performance, said Westall's network administrator Daniel Stefyn.
But according to Stefyn, the "huge amount of flexibility" offered by the Linux operating system was the primary motive behind its adoption.
Using Kubuntu, we can easily extend the life of older hardware with little performance drop
The library system at the college uses a Web-based service that students can access from six Linux desktops located throughout the library.
Initially, the school trialed Ubuntu with the GNOME desktop, but found that Kubuntu, with KDE's kiosk tool, allowed for greater control in locking down workstations.
"The KDE Kiosk admin tool is currently used as there didn't appear to be enough flexibility with the GNOME setup to allow for a decent lockdown," Stefyn said.
"Using Kubuntu, we can easily extend the life of older hardware with little performance drop. It was easy to secure the workstations and train a student technician to maintain the hardware."
Library staff only need to turn on the computers which automatically log onto a restricted Ubuntu session. By default, a library search screen launches in Firefox with a kiosk lock down extension.


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One of the features added in this release for database work with the zxJDBC API is with-statement compatibility. Thanks to Jim Baker for updating the PyConnection and PyCursor objects in Jython so that it can now be used in the context of a with-statement. This can be useful for maintaining resources and transactional state when working with databases.
To use the new feature, you must import the closing() function from contextlib so that the connection can be bound to a variable and closed at the end of the statement. Use of this feature works as follows:
# In this example, I am connecting to a postgresql database.
# Of course, we could connect to the database of our choice so long
# as we have the appropriate JDBC driver in our CLASSPATH
>>> from __future__ import with_statement
>>> from com.ziclix.python.sql import zxJDBC
>>> from contextlib import closing
>>> jdbc_url = "jdbc:postgresql:mydatabase"
>>> username = "postgres"
>>> password = "mypass"
>>> driver = "org.postgresql.Driver"
>>> with closing(zxJDBC.connect(jdbc_url, username, password, driver)) as conn:
... with conn:
>>> # Use one or more cursors within the context of the with-statement
... with conn.cursor() as c:
... c.execute("select name from country")
... c.fetchone()
In the example above, I queried a database table. However, we could use the cursor in any way that we'd like within the context of the statement. Use for transaction management and if an error occurs within a transaction then everything is rolled back.
>>> with closing(zxJDBC.connect(jdbc_url, username, password, driver)) as conn:
... with conn:
... with conn.cursor() as c:
... try:
... stmt = "insert into country values (?,?)"
... # the following produces an error
... c.executemany(stmt, ['test'])
... # perform more inserts and updates
... conn.commit()
... except Exception, err:
... raise Exception("There has been a zxJDBC error")
Transaction management is taken care of such that if a statement fails, then the complete transaction is rolled back. This is very useful for transaction management. If you attempt to work with the cursor or connection outside of the statement then it will not work because the statement closes them after use. That is the beauty of using the with-statement for resource management. The with-statement is also nice for working with files and such in a similar manner.
For more information on the use of the with_statement, please visit PEP-343 or the open source Jython Book (In Progress) which will soon be updated to illustrate correct usage of with-statement context management for zxJDBC in 2.5.1.


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-Joe Sabah
-Henry Ford
Hope you are feeling better now, my lovely. Hopefully you'll be able to set aside some quiet time for silence and reflection after such a busy December. Happy 2012;-)
Wishing you a wonderful 2012!
Happy Friday Poppie Girl!
I do hope you had a wonderful Christmas and all your sickness is over!
I love this qoute
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
-Joe Sabah
I got a good feeling for 2012 :)
Let nothing stop us!
Thank you for a wonderful year of friendshio!!!! I think the world of you!
Lots of love
gi gi
Awesome quotes, as usual! I've missed you and hope to read more in 2012!
Have a great New Year!
Love the quotes!
Happy Newyear!
May your dreams come true in 2012.
And a Happy New Year to you, too!
May you have a fruitful, happy and healthy 2012.
ps. love your new blog design ;)
I love the beginning of a new year - feels like anything is possible! Happy New Year! :-)
Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy NEW YEAR sweetest friend!!!! May 2012 be the best year ever!!!!
Much love and health!!!!
Love you!!
DEAREST! I too have been sick almost for 2 months!I do hope you will have time to slow down and enjoy the new days ahead! I HAVE MISSED YOU SO!!! PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU IN 2012! Anita
Oh sweet friend,
It has been a wonderful pleasure to meet you as well this year. My hope for you is that you continue to work on your goals and they WILL HAPPEN! Then when you achieve them, more challenges will pop up, but what else are we to do in this life? HAPPY NEW YEAR and be well! Anita
Wishing you a happy New Year. May 2012 be an outstanding year. I'm excited to see what is all in store!
Best Wishes
Hope you are enjoying the holidays as well! Great NYE quotes. Happy New Year! xo style, she wrote
So nice to meet you just found your beautiful blog and so happy I did. I have enjoyed looking around and I'm now following you, if you find a spare minute hope you visit me sometime and follow back so nice to meet new friends. Sending you special wishes for a wonderful New Year I'm looking forward to keeping in touch in 2012.
Always Wendy
Happy New Year! A new year always feels like a new start that motivates you to do whatever you've been putting off. Hope your 2012 is filled with happiness!
I love those quotes!So true... Happy new year!
Happy New Year to you! Am looking forward to sharing many more loveliness in 2012 - thanks for being such a great blogfriend!
i love setting goals for myself too, it feels good. i am almost finished with mine <3 cheers to a wonderful new year for you!
I hope you are feeling much better now and are ready to jump in to 2012. Here's to new adventures!
Hugs, Stephie x
Happy New Year, sweetie! Hope that 2012 is off to a wonderful start! XOXO
Happy Happy New Year, Shawna! Wishing you an amazing 2012!
Hi Shawna!! Happy New Year to you! I hope it's a truly wonderful year for you. I'm committed to making this my most creative and adventurous year yet :) I'm not a resolution-maker.. more of a goal-setter I guess. haha Well I hope you are feeling now too. Talk to you soon! xo
that first quote is wonderful. I have a love/hate relationship with New Year's, and that quote is inspiring! xoxo
Happy New Year, love! Here's to 2012. I can't wait to see what it brings.
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Hello! I haven't been to your site since you've changed the layout...looks divine though.
And Happy New Year! I hope you have a wonderful 2012.
Happy new year and best wishes for 2012.
Happy New Year! may all your wishes become true! <3<3
Hey Shawna! thanks for all your comments. I know what you mean...The holidays is the busiest time of year for everyone I think, including myself and I felt like it just sped by. We took a surprise trip to Umbria and I'm recovering from our trip. We didn't get any sleep and I'm just trashed. I hope you had a wonderful New Year! Speak soon!
Hugs! Reese
great post to start the new year!
Hope you had a great New Year's Eve! Love the quotes! kiss on the cheek! -Taj
hope you are feeling better and had a wonderful new year!
I had two New Years as we were traveling from New Zealand but still haven't firmly fixed my resolutions yet!
Happy New Year! My best and warmest wishes! xo
I hope you are well and feeling like jumping into the New Year with joyful enthusiasm. Your photo and quotes are very inspiring! I hope your New Year is full of blessings!
what an inspiring quotes, thank you.....are we following each other yet......cause I think we should and I am............xx
Happy New Year fellow blog friend :)
Hope all is going well for you!
Oie, adorei seu blog ,benhê *-* sou nova aqui, eu e minha amiga fizemos esse blog a pouco tempo, então se vc puder passar lá e dizer o que achou, vai ser ótimo rs *-* bjks
Happy New Years my friend! Hope you are feeling better... come visit me in Florida!
Hello lovely lady, I miss you very much! I hope you are feeling better now!...Happy new year to you. I wish you a wonderful 2012.
My new year's eve was lovely! I spent it praying with my family in Nigeria, and preparing for my brother's wedding. The wedding was beyond lovely.
How have your days been?
You have my love.
wishing you the best for 2012 and lots of health!!!
Happy New Year and all the best for 2012
Hope your year is going great so far dear! looking forward to your next post! xx
Happy New Year Hope it's going well so far!
I have read this post before, and it still makes me teary. The quotes are lovely.
How are you these days? I hope your days are lovely and warm.
I'm back to the US. I had a wonderful trip! Also, I got a new bike. She is beautiful. I slowly await the summer, so I can paint crazy things on her..haha.
School begins on Wednesday. Floyd and I will be going to the same school. This makes me very happy. I might not see him often though. He has classes 3 days a week, and I'm in the Engineering building 24-7...Nevertheless, I'm happy we might have lunch/ride home together sometimes. :))) Oh, we are not dating. We are simply "good friends" who care much for each other.
Speaking of lovers, my bestfriend (Brenton) wants me to marry him someday in the future....I love him very much, but we are not at a marriage level...not yet.
That's my life so far..The usual...School, work, Brenton, new people.
Tell me about your days.
Just a quick hello to say hope you're having a great weekend!
Hello Ms. Poppies!! :)
How are you? I am doing great now from getting all those sickness. Thank you for stopping by like always :) Love those inspiring quotes you've added towards the end. Something I needed and will always keep in mind. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas as well as New Years!
♥ x0x0 :)


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The i3 (patented) allows you to take control of your diving. Mastering buoyancy control is one of the most difficult skills to learn. The i3 not only makes the skill easier but eliminates potential out-of-control-ascents caused by a diver reaching for the wrong dump valve. The i3 also allows for rapid location and activation of the inflator to establish buoyancy at the surface in case of an emergency.
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Greg Caldwell continues work with Lewis & Clark alumni
June 26, 2012
Greg Caldwell, former Associate Dean of Students and Director of International Students, may be retired, but he continues to travel the world meeting with Lewis & Clark alumni. He recently returned from Singapore, Jakarta and Bali. He was the guest of four L&C alumni: Kardinata Aliwarga '89, Wai Chi Wong '89, Wai Fun Wong '90, and Eddy Poerwanto '91 who invited him to spend a week in Bali with their families.
Caldwell met with thirteen L&C alumni in Singapore and Jakarta during his recent two-week visit. In addition to his hosts, Caldwell met: Carl Thong '89, Cachino Thong '92, Juhanis Thong '95, Simran Singh '08, Han Mei Khor '89, Christine Ho '93, Michelle Glenn '90, Ronny Sutjiamidjaya '90, and current student Yi Zhen Tan '15.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Three officers shot and killed a 41-year-old man after police said he stabbed his stepfather, then later charged an officer while holding a pellet gun following a nearly two-hour standoff Tuesday evening, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Chief Tom Hackney said at a news conference Wednesday.
Todd Jones died at the scene of the shooting -- the Countryside Village Mobile Home Park in the 9900 block of Beach Boulevard. Police said Jones stabbed his 59-year-old stepfather, Elbert Lilley, after calling him to the home.
Hackney said the two had been family members for more than 20 years. He said Lilley was married to Jones' mom, who died April 19 after a short battle with cancer.
"The two had lived in the trailer for some period of time," Hackney said. "When it was obvious that Jones and Lilley could not get along, an ultimatum was given by Mrs. Lilley about one of the two of them leaving the trailer. They decided at that point in time that Mr. Lilley would move."
He moved to the beach, where he lived alone for some time. Lilley owned the trailer, and after his wife died, he told Jones he needed to find somewhere else to live.
Hackney said when Lilley went to the home Tuesday at Jones' request, Jones threw the door open and immediately screamed at him to "die die," then stabbed him in the chest with a makeshift spear -- a PVC pipe with a knife attached to it.
The two fell to the ground, and Lilley told police Jones was trying to take a black handgun from Lilley's pocket.
"The gun got hung up on his pocket, and that gave Mr. Lilley a chance to escape," Hackney said.
He ran to a neighbor's house and called 911.
Lilley was flown to Shands Jacksonville Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. He has since been upgraded to serious condition.
When police arrived, Lilley told them Jones had gone into the trailer armed with a gun and a knife. Lilley told police he thought Jones was suicidal based on the ambush.
Police said Jones did not cooperate with their request to come out of the home. The SWAT team was called out and established a perimeter about 6 p.m.
About two hours later, police said, Jones threw the front door open and ran out screaming. Hackney said Jones was holding a handgun when he charged one of the officers.
Three officers shot Jones with their department-issued AR-15 rifles. Those officers were Sgt. Joel Weeks, a 20-year veteran, and Officer Robert Holmes, a six-year veteran, and Officer Angel Santiago, a four-year veteran. All three were placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure in a police-involved shooting.
This was Weeks' fourth police-involved shooting and the first for Holmes and Santiago.
Hackney said a total of 21 shots were fired by the officers, and Jones was struck at least 11 times, including in the chest.
Hackney said the gun recovered from Jones turned out to be a pellet gun.
Jones' only previous encounter with police was a domestic disturbance with Lilley in 2009. No charges were filed.
"That makes this an obvious suicide by cop in our opinion," Hackney said. "He exited the trailer holding what he knew not to be a firearm, charging officers that he knew to be armed with that. Couple that with Mr. Lilley's assessment of his actions earlier clearly makes that a suicide by cop."
No officers were injured in the shooting.


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GM says new Georgia IT centre will create 1,000 jobs
228,000 square-foot Roswell facility is part of GM's effort to hire 10,000 tech professionals to boost in-house innovation.
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ATLANTA—General Motors says a new information technology centre in suburban Atlanta—the third of four planned by the nation's largest automaker—is expected to open by March and create 1,000 white-collar jobs as part of its new focus on producing software and other applications in-house.
The automaker is hiring software developers, project managers, database experts, business analysts and other information technology professionals to staff its Information Technology Innovation Center in Roswell, about 10 miles north of Atlanta.
State officials say the company has invested $26 million in the development and are calling it another step toward establishing the area as a hub for technological innovation.
GM Chief Information Officer Randy Mott says the company has relied on outside firms for tech products and applications for about 30 years. The 228,000 square-foot Roswell facility—along with centres in Warren, Mich.; Austin, Texas; and a to-be-named fourth location—will be part of GM's effort to hire up to 10,000 technology professionals over a three- to five-year period to move production in-house instead of buying from outside companies.
"We feel like based on what we're trying to do, which is provide capability for our business, it's much better to have people that understand not only technology but General Motors and the General Motors business," Mott said after a news conference at Georgia Tech.
The GM deal includes tax incentives for the company and an economic development grant for the city of Roswell.
GM is eligible to receive a maximum of $17.5 million in statutory jobs credits over five years, said Alison Tyrer spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Economic Development. She said GM is eligible because its facility will be in an "opportunity zone," defined as a commercial or industrial area in need of economic redevelopment. Businesses employing more than two workers that operate in opportunity zones are eligible for a maximum tax credit of $3,500 for every job created over a five-year period.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal called the development key to making the state a more desirable place to do business, and said it reinforces Georgia's place in the growing technology industry.
"Georgia is becoming an IT headquarters," he said. "We're seeing more and more growth in the IT sector, and that's certainly good for us."
In metro Atlanta, the information services industry—which includes the technology sector—has seen a growth rate of about 2.7% since last year, according to Georgia Department of Labor officials. The industry employed 80,500, people in the region as of November 2012.
The industry has seen wider growth statewide, with Labor officials noting a 5.2% increase in jobs from 2011 to 2012.
Mott said GM is looking for seasoned professionals and recent graduates to fill positions in all of its innovation centres. About 30 to 35% of the Roswell centre's workforce is expected to be composed of recent graduates, he said.
About 700 people have been hired for positions at GM's other two innovation centres. According to GM, both are open.
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SWR's Corey Cairo stepped up when Islanders needed a goalie during lockout
Corey Cairo is one hockey player who will have fond memories of the NHL lockout.
The Shoreham-Wading River senior had the experience of a lifetime during the hiatus, routinely standing in the goal crease and fending off blazing shots from a group of Islanders trying to stay sharp at Superior Rink in Kings Park.
Cairo, a goaltender for the Long Island Junior B Royals, will never forget those pucks flying off the sticks of the pros.
"I wasn't used to seeing them come in that quick,'' he said, "but it was fun having NHL players shooting on me, fun being on the ice with them.''
Among the Islanders taking shots at Cairo were Michael Grabner, Eric Boulton, Matt Carkner, Radek Martinek and Marty Reasoner.
In September, with the lockout looming, Boulton reached out to Jack Greig, the hockey director for the Royals, to reserve ice time at Superior for his Islanders teammates.
"At times there were just four of us and we had trouble getting goaltending out there," Carkner said, explaining how Cairo came into play.
Greig said about 25 Islanders showed up for the initial player-only skates, but some left when the minor league and European seasons began. The remaining players needed a goaltender for their workouts. Greig, who played minor-league hockey and was invited to an Islanders rookie camp in 1998, told Boulton that Cairo was perfect for the job.
"It brought some fun into it, too, when we got to play two-on-two with a goaltender, so we were happy he came and helped us out," Carkner said. "It's a lot better shooting on a goaltender than shooting on an empty net."
Cairo, though hesitant at first, was excited about the opportunity.
"I was a little nervous walking into the rink and it hit me pretty much when I saw all the players," Cairo said about his first session with the Islanders in mid-October. "But once I stepped into the locker room, they all introduced themselves and it was fun meeting the players and then playing with them. I recognized some of them and was like, 'Wow, I'm actually skating with a professional hockey team.' I was in shock that I was on the ice with them."
And competing against them was a revelation.
"They were quick, and their quick release of the puck coming off their stick was faster than most shots I've actually seen," he said. "How they release the puck makes it look quicker.''
Though he admittedly struggled at first, Cairo recalled a few glove and pad saves and stops he made on breakaways that impressed the players and earned him an invitation to return.
Cairo then became a mainstay at practice, skating with the pros two or three times per week through the middle of December.
"He tried hard, and that's what we wanted," said Grabner, who scored 20 goals last season. "We wanted to work on stuff and we weren't taking it easy, either, so it was a great effort by him and we appreciate that he came out. Hopefully it was good practice for him, too."
Said Carkner, "He really worked hard against us. We did a lot of shooting drills so it was a lot of volume for him, and he didn't look out of place or anything."
With the NHL season finally under way, Cairo has a new perspective when he's playing for the Royals. "Everything felt easier and slower," he said.
Cairo said he hopes to play in a high-level junior league next season and someday play in college.
For now, though, he's proud that he already has had an impact on the NHL with his favorite team.
"If there wasn't a lockout, I obviously wouldn't have had this opportunity to skate with professional players," Cairo said, "but I'm also happy I can watch hockey again."


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - International School of Macae // Rio de J. Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in International School of Macae // Rio de J. Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Brazil View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Special ReportJoined: 08 May 2007Posts: 8 Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: International School of Macae // Rio de J. The International School of Macae indicates it is in a suburb of Rio with about 500 students catering to the oil and gas families of the area. Anyone familiar with this area and heard about or worked with the school, I'd love to hear about your experience and your perspective of what the school might be about. Look forward to hearing from you. Special Report Back to top CAPIVARAJoined: 23 Jan 2011Posts: 32 Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject: working in Macae- not relevant but may attract some anwers! I started this thread on gringoes.com about working in Macae. http://www.gringoes.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11286&PN=1 Back to top El HoboJoined: 28 Sep 2012Posts: 40Location: Iraqi-Kurdistan Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:53 am Post subject: Though this thread is old, I thought I'd do the right thing and warn people about this school. This is a woefully poor school, so much so that it is quite hard to believe. It has been a couple of years since I left the school now so I can write from a balanced and impassionate perspective. Around 60% of the school's staff are Brazilian and from a former cult named "The Family". This cult is infamous for its pedophilia and one may be forgiven for asking why a school would be so closely linked with such a creepy cult. Though they claim to be ex members of the cult, their cliquish behavior and religiosity can seem odd and often exclusionary. Macaé is an oil-boom city and consequently quite dangerous. One teacher was raped in her apartment and another robbed in broad daylight and at gunpoint. The city is also very ugly and polluted; open sewers that will make you gag, a destroyed beach promenade, trash left to fester and stink and rats running across your feet. Despite being in Rio de Janeiro state, Macaé is two hours from the city of Rio, a ride that will cost around $25 USD (one way) and an expense that makes trips unfeasible on the teacher's paltry salary. Which brings me to cost of living; Macaé is expensive! A shopping cart of basic groceries will cost around $200 USD. It amazed me how the poorer people of the city could eat at all but it also explained the rampant and violent crime. I did not feel safe in this city. Tell Brazilians you live in Macaé and they will remark how dangerous the city is. Eating out in Macaé would cost a minimum of $30 USD per person in a restaurant, a mixed drink will cost $8 - $10 USD. This is an oil boom city, full of young "rough necks" with lots of money, little taste and a penchant for prostitutes and alcohol – consequently, you will find prices to match their budgets, not yours. Travelling around Brazil is also expensive; a hotel room in Rio for example is a minimum of $100 USD per night and a bed in hostel dormitory costs around $50 USD per night. Forget about having weekends in Rio, you just can't afford it – you're gonna stay in Macaé. Every teacher, regardless of experience or education, earns $1600 USD a-month BEFORE tax which is about 20%. Salaries are only increased dependent on the years you spend at ISM - nothing, not a Master's, a Ph.D or anything else will raise your salary above this paltry amount. There are very few resources, teachers are expected to buy there own. There is no photocopier only a printer and teachers are expected to give FIVE days notice to print something out, despite the school being very small. The acreage of the schools is tiny, perhaps 5 or 6 acres and every square yard is built upon. There is NO grass on the school grounds. The owner has found a way to build more and more building to hustle in more and more fee-paying customers. It really is quite sad to see that the kids have no space to run and play. It is a very ugly school. Being the only international school in an oil-boom city means that ISM can charge whatever it likes to the parents, and they take full advantage of that power. ISM is one of the most expensive schools in Brazil and there are some incredibly impressive international schools in Brasilia and Sao Paulo, world-class in fact. ISM beats almost all of them in terms of tuition fees though, charging a whopping $2000 USD per student, per month. You might imagine that the students at least get a good education – IB or IGCSE for example. But the students do not even get a curriculum and often the teachers do not even have a college degree. The students are taught from The University of Nebraska's home schooling books; books that cost the school just a couple of hundred dollars to buy, that are written for parents; books that are meant to be used at home not at a school! Even the worst schools you can think of don't use home schooling books, self-study books! Because these books are made to be self-study the teachers just babysit the students, mess around on the internet and walk around the class. It is disgusting. And if the parents were paying for the tuition instead of the oil companies they work for there would be no way the school could get away with it. The students could get the same education at home for a couple of hundred dollars instead of almost $50,000 a-year. The only difference in being 'taught' at ISM instead of being at home, being home-schooled is that the bored kids actually get to socialize. None of us could quite believe that the school was getting away with it. It really is reprehensible. The entire middle and high school consists of only 15 children. That's right, 15 children. The children mostly come from the UK and the US and are really quite sweet. They are bored, disaffected and often neglected though and unfortunately often turn to alcohol, wild parties and drugs. The parents don't seem to disapprove of the wild drinking so much, but then the parents are "rough necks" and alcoholism and machismo is rife in their industry. Students can regularly be heard telling stories of drunkenness and sexual encounters of a frequency and extremity that is rarely encountered by a teacher, even by one such as myself with several years of inner-city experience. Accommodation is on school grounds, either in one big house or in one of three tiny adjacent apartments with a shared kitchen. There is very little privacy and one can hear all conversations in full. The accommodation however, is right next to a cobblestone road and the noise from the passing cars will drown out your conversations and wake you up startled in the middle of the night. You will be watched and studied by a cleaner who reports back to Leslie da Mota, the reluctant owner of the school. The cleaner will report on the trash you throw away (there was a cigarette butt in there!), your clothes were on the floor; a banana was left in the room! Leslie will freak out. Cleanliness in your apartment is VERY important to Leslie. One morning all teachers were pulled out of our classes and told to run back to the house, Leslie was pulling at her hair because one of the teachers left a couple of chairs outside. All furniture in the accommodation must not be moved, it is sad, but all furniture must be left exactly as her deceased mother left it. It is the administration which really makes the school unbearable though. Apart from being intensely greedy with regards to the tuition fees, they are utterly inept and unqualified in my opinion. Leslie assumed the helm of the school after the rather tragic death of her mother. Leslie is a trained lawyer and has no interest in education that I have seen and I believe she took control of the school out of a sense of duty after her mother's death. Leslie is an incredibly neurotic woman who will change her mind at a whim leaving you high and dry. Did she say you'd get a pay rise? Well, she's changed her mind now. Oh, she said you'd get that promotion? No, no – not anymore. Sometimes I would send Leslie an email and it would not be answered for over a month, when I would finally see her in the school (rare) when she would see me, she would literally sprint away in the other direction. Her lack of professionalism astounded us all; it was staggering. Leslie will brag about weekend trips to LA to buy "a new wardrobe" of clothes while the teachers struggle to save a few hundred dollars a month. She's not a bad person though - just absolutely not qualified or experienced to be running a school. I am really trying to think of something positive to write. Looking back, it seems like a blackhole in my life, I wonder where it went. I found a beautiful part of Brazil, a little town far away from Macaé which I fell in love with; I guess that's a positive thing to write, but about Macaé, no. One or two of the teachers were nice, but very inexperienced and apart from a couple, very unqualified. On the whole, I feel quite sure this is the worst school in Brazil and perhaps a contender for worst school in South America. Even if you're a newly-qualified teacher, don't think about it, trust me; YES, it can be that bad. I have no memories from then, I just couldn't wait for it to be over. I just fantasized about the future all the time. Now I am in the Middle East, in a country generally regarded as an absolute nightmare to live in and I am so, so much happier. So, I guess I found one positive thing to say about the International School of Macaé, if you work here for a year, it will make all the other schools seem happy and satisfying. The International School of Macaé: not even once. Not even once. 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Melrose, Mass., serves as host for shared IT infrastructure in a multi-tenant cloud environment.
What may seem like the neighborly thing to do is actually a practice that can help cities save money on IT services: sharing.
When Melrose, Mass., moved forward with an IT infrastructure upgrade and data center consolidation in 2010 after receiving grant funding from the state, the city developed a scalable model to allow other cities to share its multi-tenant cloud platform.
Pushing for regionalized IT services would not only generate revenue for the city, but also make Melrose a more attractive candidate for additional grant funding, said city CIO Jorge Pazos.
"We were trying to consolidate our own stuff and create opportunities that we didn't currently have at that point in time," Pazos said.
And so far, the effort has shown that multiple municipalities can operate IT services on shared infrastructure, effectively driving down costs for each participant.
To develop a proof of concept, Melrose first tapped the town of Essex, just 26 miles away on the north shore of Massachusetts, to provide infrastructure as a service with a revamped platform consisting of Cisco's Unified Computing System, with blade servers.
Essex Administrator Brendhan Zubricki said the town was already interested in outsourcing its IT services to another municipality and began the process in 2011.
First, the town migrated user data to Melrose's infrastructure. The next phase will be migrating each user's desktop. Getting user data out of Essex means the town can avoid replacing servers when their life cycles end.
"Our goal is not to run any servers," Zubricki said. "Our goal is just to run a thin client environment."
Pazos said that as an early adopter, Essex received a discount for migrating to Melrose's upgraded infrastructure. Zubricki reports that the move has helped the town drive down IT costs by one-third.
Shared services is a concept that's making headway in state government, but shared IT services at the local level may be uncharted territory. Pazos said an inter-municipal agreement for shared services, like other types of contracts, involves hammering out the fine print so attorneys, consultants and everyone else involved are clear on the terms.
Pazos said some of the detailed contractual terms between Melrose and Essex were decided by the state of Massachusetts. But certain additional factors arose when negotiating the terms of the agreement to satisfy both parties.
Beyond key points like determining what exactly is being provided to the tenant municipality, how the host municipality is providing those services and what the costs will be, municipalities need to negotiate provisions up front that allow either party to opt out of the agreement without breaching the contract, Pazos said.
In the case of Melrose's agreement with Essex, this was the city's first contract to host IT services for another municipality, so there wasn't existing contract language to draw from. But Pazos said Essex wanted an exit strategy in case the agreement ended up not working for the town.
"No one really knew what was going to happen there, and [Essex] wanted the ability to say, 'Hey, this isn't exactly working, so we want to be able to turn this down,'" Pazos said. "And so some of the provisions we had to negotiate were accommodations that would be made by both sides in the event that we wanted to end the agreement."
Pazos said that for Melrose and Essex, each was given a designated amount of lead time for opting out of the agreement without violating the existing terms.
Melrose has taken on a second municipality – the neighboring town of Saugus – to expand the use of shared IT infrastructure. Through its second inter-municipal agreement – with onboarding expected to be completed this coming fall – Melrose will host Saugus' financial systems as well as a couple of in-house application servers.
But Melrose doesn't want to stop there.
Ideally, Pazos said, the city hopes to host IT services for five municipalities roughly the size of Saugus. Melrose purposely built out a scalable model so that they could start with a small amount of infrastructure and grow it as the demand increased. Hopefully, with more municipalities on board sharing the infrastructure, costs will decrease for all parties involved.
"We didn't want to take a 'build it and they will come' approach, because if we built it, we would have owned it." Pazos said. "And [would have] had to run it with no one helping to pay for it."
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Plaid Shirt and Tweed Vest
27 comments:
Wow that best is adorable! ! I don't recognize that. Is it a newer purchase? I'm quite smitten about it!ReplyDelete
I love the rich browns of this outfit! Your vest is fab and it's perfect with the plaid top!ReplyDelete
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Great casual outfit.ReplyDelete
- Susan JeffriesFebruary 4, 2015 at 6:27 AM
I am tired of the cold and snow too!! We have such a long season. Great combo today! I think I will try this out for the weekend! SusanReplyDelete
I absolutely love that tweed vest!!ReplyDelete
Great day you guys are getting some snow!!! I absolutely love the color of your jeans, its perfect with the colors in your shirt. Hope you and Claire have fun playing in the snow :)ReplyDelete
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This vest is gorgeous, love this outfit!ReplyDelete
We have a snow day today. Last week's weather was such a tease! This plaid is great here!ReplyDelete
- The Real ArnoldsFebruary 4, 2015 at 9:07 AM
Love the vest! Your layers are so slim and streamlined.ReplyDelete
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I love that vest! The plaid top is so fun too!ReplyDelete
- Carrie @ Curly Crafty MomFebruary 4, 2015 at 10:27 AM
I love everything about this outfit and this would be beautiful in the fall, too with the hints of orange in the plaid and the brown boots. I really like your jeans, perfect dark wash and I like the white stitching. That vest is fab, too!ReplyDelete
Super cute....love that plaid it is different. Great outfit on you!ReplyDelete
Great plaid shirt. I hope you are staying warmReplyDelete
I love the different textures going on here, and the boots pull it all together perfectly. Great outfit!ReplyDelete
Wait, wait wait. This vest is from target?! Where have I been? I love it. And dang, what a difference a week (and a foot of snow) makes. Hope you are warm and bundled up! You definitely are looking oh-so-chic in a Tar-jay find!ReplyDelete
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The plaid shirt here is so cute and I love how the cognac stripes on it pick up the cognac boots. Those are some gorgeous boots by the way.ReplyDelete
I love the colors of your plaid shirt! Your boots really work well with making the colors pop! I am still crushing on that vest!ReplyDelete
- ElleSees.blogspot.comFebruary 4, 2015 at 7:37 PM
love how you always find nw ways to mix it up!!!!ReplyDelete
Love the combination of tweed and plaid! Those boots coordinate perfectly.ReplyDelete
I'm counting down the hours until the weekend too...
- HappinessatmidlifeFebruary 4, 2015 at 10:09 PM
Oh...those boots look so perfectly with this!ReplyDelete
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I love this vest! Vests are one of my favorite layering pieces, and this one is so unique. You look beautiful!ReplyDelete
- WhitneyFebruary 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM
Shooting outside is such a challenge in the winter, and we don't have snow just wind! Adorable look!! Xoxo,ReplyDelete
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Perfect weekend casual! Of course the snow just doesn't seem to want to stop this year. It's getting so hard to stay on top of outfit photos.ReplyDelete
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Love the layers. You look great in plaid and love the colorof your boots.ReplyDelete
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I really like this outfit! It's so classic and perfect in every way!ReplyDelete
Wow, you rock in that outfit!ReplyDelete
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- Renae of Simple SequinsFebruary 5, 2015 at 11:27 PM
hi Laura! Did you know I was back? Well, I is. lol Great ensemble. You always look great in that vest when you feature it. You do great in plaids. Me? Not so much. ♥, RenaeReplyDelete